i don't know if i could give a little. if five or six cups a day yes i'm not good to much of anything but there's going to drink three cups definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily naps of a recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high . unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work

imperative in america are working really long hours people are chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid ongoing economic instability u.s. energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven. the newest stimulant hitting the market is a slim a plastic inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth the whole one country ordering. the caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. consume that caffeine meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective reasons is to create repeat customers to get people to the product can be clearly

an addictive substance and by creating all these products they're definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is you know happy over consumption of coke in a can because while going after new consumers one u.s. company really did national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them caffeine and a butt load of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who say for local killed their son police say dozens of students have been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains on compromise with more and more americans looking for their legal high arena point i r t b.

well that brings up today for the man i'll be back with more for you in a little under ten minutes from now but first our tease interview with pakistan's foreign minister rabbani khar on the challenges facing the country. to get. she is the youngest foreign minister and of all that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is

joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have in the street and and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the street and rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty

high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions people have been replaced there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. involvement in afghanistan from the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing the. two solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed. treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular case not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter because pakistan continues to lose pakistan continues. to lose in terms of economic costs in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in many ways but some

times the rule that is that is put on pakistan is a rule which is understandable which defies logic so to speak because if the first country to benefit from is stable one stands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable of understand is also pakistan i think saying that pakistan is cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is an imaginary blame it is an imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions the real problems have to be faced you know on the ground president obama said in a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the pakistani authorities allegedly. are not in control of their

own land and my question is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are hitting targets on pakistani land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the loss of life among the pakistani citizens this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our successes in our view. not only completely illegal and under full and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets. ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the four do it that it

gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks we are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences of what you know many other powers of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of the challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of one star now in trying to deal with that we have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody. so again do we want to repeat this to mystics again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is illegal under full counterproductive just last week. and her report was leaked to the media that pakistani security forces and maintaining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was. an allegation that they're supporting them financially.

is this true first of all this is not a new to report we were told by need to at least that this is a. single person not need to report but if in the country and the single person. pretty much. all the bottle because this is not a new accusation or allegation which have been made and the specific context of the mention were with the taliban of all to intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in of on some indian style with one group or the other and all of them at some level and these does are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to these. i think just creating you know this is this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly thank you very much for a time minister thank you.

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a report on our. if you're just joining us for a warm welcome all t. live here moscow with you twenty four hours a day top stories this hour the u.n. is considering a joint mission with the arab league to end the bloodshed in syria with ever conflicting reports of a number of casualties it's pretty hard to get a true picture of events. the eurozone greece is all sturdy cuts will be enough to guarantee a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout earlier athens agreed on new tough measures to secure yet another rescue plan amid public anger. was reporting this hour afghan president hamid karzai lashes out at nato forces for killing eight

children in an aerial attack on wednesday that's after the u.s. announced it could hold combat operations in afghanistan than expected. but i'll be back with more on those stories in full and other developments for you about half an hour from now in the meantime takes to the skies to look at how hot air ballooning is becoming increasingly popular here in russia that's our special report next. people couldn't fly for a long time i don't think because they didn't think it was possible we can learn how to do that without machines anyway if we want to. destroy your arm while people here are a man ticks but they have generous souls a lot sooner this is something out of this world enchanting experience disease of the skies would brings these people together so they come here from all over russia

and the world are. always people stick together because of both the love of ballooning and that none of them will be able to do it single handed each person is a zone of responsibility those on the ground are responsible for the ones in the sky together they are a close knit team. it all started in the late eighteenth century a balloon with two passengers in the basket was launched from a paris suburb one pm and fifty four minutes on november the twenty first seventeen eighty three was piloted by collateral deaths and marquis de long after flying across the french capital they landed safely in another suburb twenty minutes later the king of france for stowed them the title of count being the first humans to fly in the air and granted them the right to hand it down to successive generations of balloonists. since then

anyone going up in a balloon for the first time has to pass an initiation ritual to be awarded the title of count by the pilots. that she was killed which elements do you know. he was in really earth years water fire. what else. the air. was gone through all of them to. earth and flew in the air. of it on the ground and in the air and of course taken off without flying. fire is the main driving force of any hot air balloons the first timers have their hair ends burnt as a sign of respect for fire champagne then comes into play as a symbol of water that is used to extinguish the flaming has finally the initiated

have their heads sprinkled with earth as a good luck charm for future flights. the first balloon launch in russia came exactly twenty years after the french debut in eighteen zero three a balloonist from paris flew a russian balloon passenger over moscow according to one theory emperor alexander the first but ordered the launch he wanted to know what such aircraft clothing those designed for warfare were capable of doing in the mid twentieth century ballooning was no longer popular in russia almost no military balloons have been in use after world war two yet ballooning today remains a recreational activity for hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

p.s.e. gorse russia's oldest spa resort today it is popular among both russian and foreign balloonists a you find both mountains and lowlands the city is just over one thousand five hundred kilometers south of moscow mt elbrus europe's highest point is only seventy kilometers away the mountain stands nearly five thousand five hundred meters above sea level. the first ballooning competitions in the caucasus were held here russia's southernmost region that was in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. a pilot had to be a professional to stay. the balloon and keep it at the right altitude you can never tell how the air currents are going to behave. only nine pilots turned up for the inaugural event thirteen years ago nowadays it is an international festival that attracts both russian and foreign balloonists the aim is to restore former glory.

vitale. is a former air force pilot on the first balloonist in the caucasus the crew holds him in high respect he was the first russian take the risk of launching a balloon in the antarctic. were made a sectional bosco's and a balloon that featured the colors of the russian flag for most k. we went to paris. from there on to santiago. finally reached oldest nation terrace in chile with the world's southernmost city there's a. new pollution is on the cellphones host a number of stations belonging to the united states but very many people in high places outside the country come the presence of russian blueness they're extremely objectionable and we paid up before we arrived in chile most of us were able to fly

to king george island but only after two failed attempts. to get in the end with winds of eighty meters a second we did manage to launch a balloon but not before everything that could be broken was broken. and will continue. as far as i know only four men in the world including myself have ever launched balloons in the antarctic. vitaly was trained by alex some of one of the first balloonists in the former soviet union has been chief referee at every balloon competition in russia found he. on to the country's first balloon on a factoring company russia has a total of forty professional balloonists that make frequent flights.

about your security checks or size is performed within a radius of two hundred fifty meters other balloon start trailing behind the hair a minute later. before each launch the referee tells contestants what they're supposed to do just like with passenger aircraft balloons a check for any technical folks prussia taking off alexander's wife their i shares his passion for flying she was six years old when she first saw a balloon since then her cherished dream has been to pilot one. dress leaves you mean come on everyone can participate in critically gifted with no matter how old you are are there and feel welcome to come here with children very many men bring their wives along they don't come here is simply to look around and go for right now they help a lot. now there are a lot of a monitor's the building in competitions she recalls them a new visit wind speeds and alternative flight paths and schools them accordingly.

the admission the first balloon to go up for stubber pole it is a heads up as soon as it touches down the pilot will allow to cross on the ground the job of other pilots is to keep in mark as precisely as possible. the first building to go up is called the heading blueness lingo it is piloted by the judge then the other contestants need to mimic its maneuvers by approaching it all moving away. only few pilots can cope with such difficult competition the professionalism of the talan also has earned the couple the title of aero good. of russia but aloneness founded russia's first company money fracturing balloons aleksandr to long off made his first balloon in the late one nine hundred eighty s. it's lining born inscription saying the first soviet made mungo feel.

ballooning has gained enormous popularity in russia in the past two years this can be seen from the growing number of orders for balloons placed with our company. and so i don't think the shape of balloons or even the wicker baskets is going to change the balloons of the future will offer a more comfort to in-flight pilots. things like better navigation smoother knobs and delicate thin cords instead of course ropes tools void getting entangled . knots that sensors will give way to radio signals reporting temperatures inside the envelope with dust and all that will be mainly intended for the spectators the balloons are most likely to look like the ones built by the brothers montgolfier for a long time to come. all it had was a basket and

a burner. one tank costs full two minutes after that it should be changed i mean you should be two tanks at all times one of them an active duty and the other as a backup. to just wind up with this right here is where the baskets are born these tubs are filled with water. the liquid is used to soak willow. canes are here. but we're using rattan pam to make of this particular basket today on the gumball

dream used to give schoolchildren physical education classes he was a teacher by calling andrei even held a scientific degree for fun one day he decided to weave a small with a basket today he's head of a company which makes much larger baskets. in the old days we used to make balloon baskets in russia today the firm's top of the tropical rattan poly used it's more popular because it's more practical it's imported from europe and southeast asia. because soaking process takes three or four hours the material is not put to any particular test to see whether it is ready for processing but then i don't need any i just bend it to see whether breaks or not if. it's a simple as that doesn't if you've just ok your bullets get down to work with a work is a handy craft with a long history it was all the rage a nineteenth century russia where there was used to make all sorts of things from

furniture prams and suitcases to hunt bags and toys the traditional craft somewhat faded in the twentieth century but it is being revived today although this is a slow process only a few workshops can handle major deals involving wickerwork. family but a human nowadays basket wickerwork barely differs from its french origins yet the same technique has been used for hundreds of years i have seen how they do it in the czech republic and in germany what their methods are very much alike. andrei shares his team's motto there is no place for an important things in aviation busk it's a made in strict conformity with blueprints the job takes three days on average every small detail is important from the ropes to the framework few women and found in this trade men's hands a stronger. lashley our products retain the warmth

of our hands we know i'm sure that if you are in a good mood while waving a basket the result is a good product. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two

thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandoes that to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mass and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the farther problem is medical but i had a rescue couple weeks i waited for hours for i waited sometimes three hours i was it's a it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

cultures that so much are different and there's a huge music to share power on the market the fate of and the battle for syria the international community is divided as the syrians themselves when it comes to resolving a situation. the envelope is the most important part of a balloon the safety of all those on board depends on its quality design is make a computer model of the believe numbers once the blueprint is finished they use it to cut out a pocket of material these are used to make cots. elaina cooper yeovil is a seamstress by trade twenty years ago she worked as a tailless making dresses and overcoats when ballooning go to a new lease of life she switched to the ambitious task of making believe the envelopes elaina's blue. several times including flights aboard balloons of her own

making. zenith all those lost balloons during a festival in alaska it was a very long time ago i even flew over the kremlin and it was so much fun. didn't know such fine some bent but back in one thousand nine hundred one or one thousand nine hundred two. it was amazing. hello. that's a nice piece of material and so easy to handle. glenn lewis and your qualities of primary importance in our business is what you think of intentionally messed it up so you'll fall out of the sky that never absolutely not a great job was very well done religiously and. the company repairs the existing believes as well as making new ones it was see.